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On March 7th this year, I went up to Leicester to the Naace conference as I’d been nominated and shortlisted for the Inclusion Impact Award by Drew Buddie, whom I’d met briefly at the Teachmeet at BETT last year. I didn’t think I stood a chance, but went up as I wanted to congratulate the winner and also out of courtesy to Drew. I was truly and utterly gobsmacked, as anyone who was there would have seen, when I was announced as the winner, I am still so mightily proud today. There were so many other fabulous people nominated and they are all winners in my eyes and I’m truly humbled that the panel recognised something in my work. Many thanks to Cricksoft for their sponsorship of the award.

Here is the Prezi of what I submitted after being shortlisted – Finding The Key.

In the Prezi I refer to some work I do with the Kinect device, and here is>>>> some video <<< from a Teachmeet explaining the basics of the work.

My great friend Tony Brooks initially invited me to submit as he thought it would be good to show my work in the States. I’m very chuffed to be attending however I need to find some funding from somewhere.

Following on from the last post some of you may want to try the apps done by Jan Ciger for the Kinect using Processing and the OpenNI libraries. SEE HERE for links to Java development Kit, Processing and Proclipsing, install all of those.

As in the previous post use this guide to get started with Proclipsing, don’t worry so much about creating a new project (towards the bottom of the guide), but find your Processing Sketch folder and create a ‘libraries’ folder in there.

Launch Processing and have a look in the examples folder of what is possible, that should keep you busy for an evening.

I demoed some stuff that the fabulous Jan Ciger has put together for me with the OpenNI Open Source libraries for Kinect and some great sketches from Processing at #TMSEN12 SEN teachmeet on Sat 28th Jan.

As Processing is written in Java, then the OpenNI libraries have been used to avoid driver conflicts and also they are cross-platform. As Jan compiles uses Linux, it makes sense for me to use the format and libraries he uses.

Plug in your freestanding Kinect into a USB port (you’ll need an adapter if you haven’t got one e.g. ONE OF THESE ) and power socket.

In you start menu, you should have OpenNI and Primesense , under Primesense you should have Nite and Sensorkinect, click on Nite and you should have an uninstall, a Documentation and a Samples folder, click the samples folder, click on Sample-Point Viewer, it should open, stand in front of the Kinect and after a little while you should see your hand drawing a line or Sample-Stick Figure, you should see a little yellow you with a skeleton inside it.

Also, in the yellow samples folder double click that, in the Bin folder, click the Release folder, and there are a few more samples in there, some work better than others, but you should get the idea.